Opposites are Not Corollaries!

The problem with metaphysics is that no one seems to be able to get away from duality. No one can figure out how to get a multiplicity of reality from a singularity, even though they may assume and/or assert that their dualism is in fact a singular metaphysical primary. Which is understandable. It’s certainly a complicated paradox to unravel. And on the face of it appears to be wholly contradictory, and this is why I think philosphers and psuedophilosopers didn’t and don’t seem to possess an indefatigable resolve to reconcile it. Because they don’t recognize it as a paradox, but as a contradiction. Of course the irony here is that once you reject a singular metaphysical fundamental as a contradiction, and thus necessarily adopt a dualistic metaphysic (e.g. existence/existing (is and action), darkness/lightness (good/evil), the ying yang of far east philosophies, total existential insufficiency/moral responsibility a la Christianity, the interplay of the infinite and the finite a la Jordan Peterson) contradiction, itself, becomes the fundamental. By conceding that contradiction is not possible, and thus rejecting either implicitly or explicitly a single metaphysical fundamental, contradiction, by virtue of a dualistic premise where contrary notions are fused, becomes everything. Somehow, by some contortion and distortion of logic, mutually exclusive propositions relate to each other and compliment each other. And somehow this passes for the singularity metaphysics demands.

To be blunt, this is absurd. You don’t get to select opposites like infinity and finity, or lightness and darkness and then magically make them a corollary and then claim to have solved the metaphysical problem. This must be understood: Opposites are not corollaries. They cannot, and never were, and never will be corollaries. They are opposite. Which means that by definition they are not functionally the same thing. Once opposites become “two sides of the same coin”…that is, once opposites become One, then truth is impossible. Because by this logic truth and lie become One; good and evil are One; is and is not are One. And from this there is no limit to the madness and the destruction madness will spawn.

Here’s a relatively simple way to look at corollaries:

A corollary is when the perceivable can only abstractly—cognitively or conceptually you might say—be separated, for the purposes of arguing or achieving a certain rational objective. Practically manifest these “separations” are one and the same. Love and relationship, or labor and property, or action and ability…these are examples of true corollaries. To perceive one is to necessarily perceive the other. This is not the case with opposites. Left and right are not simultaneously perceived. The observer, from his given position, can only perceive one at a time. If you see someone turning right, you cannot and are not also seeing him turn left unless and until you change your position. It is the same with up and down, towards and away from…even good and evil require a shift in one’s ethical position…that is, one’s ethical premise.

Now, while it is true that left may imply right—that a positive implies a negative, in general terms—the antipode does not make a corollary. In fact it is quite the contrary. With opposites like left and right we have an implied antithesis. That is, distinction, not oneness, is implied…and indeed, distinction is precisely what is observed from any given location. A corollary is completely different. What is implied is non-distinction. A as One is broken up into conceptual notions that all imply the efficacious, observable, practical singular existence of A as A. Implication then itself is nothing. What is implied is the difference between opposites and corollaries.

A corollary is implied oneness, not implied distinction. So a corollary can serve, and indeed will serve, as the metaphysical fundamental. ABILITY—-action-relativity-conceptualization-language-communication-Self/Other…this is a proper metaphysical corollary. All components imply Ability and Ability implies all components. This is a proper start to metaphysics because it is an actual corollary. Opposites like good and evil or infinity and finity are not proper metaphysical notions.